Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] ['s] [noun] [pers pn] had " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was the largest hornets ' nest he had ever seen , hanging right in his path . |
| 2 | After a few hours ' rest I had something to eat . |
| 3 | Jeans cut off thigh-high to make shorts and a T-shirt he had made out of an old man 's vest he had bought for 20p in a sale under the arches at Charing Cross Station and dyed green and yellow . |
| 4 | He ate a gargantuan meal , starting with some plovers ' eggs they had overlooked earlier , working on through a few roast geese with a brace or so of ducklings on the side , and ending with one half of a cheese and a couple of bowls of fruit . |
| 5 | ‘ The lasagne 's fine , ’ she murmured as she played for time and thought of the three months ' mortgage she had to find and how impossible she would find it to pay one months ' mortgage , let alone three , if she did n't have a job . |
| 6 | About three weeks ' pay he had taken from Rab . |
| 7 | For that day 's class she had taken her own watercolours , bought with the Visacard in Reading … |
| 8 | All Marion 's life he had grumbled about being both a father and a mother to her and when she was small she had felt that he was cross with her . |
| 9 | After fifteen minutes ' work he had found nothing of interest . |
| 10 | Of course Boy had seen inside a lot of different men 's houses , but this was the first man 's life he had ever watched at such close quarters , the first time he had ever seen a man taking care of himself , the first time he had ever seen another man living day after day after day . |
| 11 | The following morning he told me what a wonderful night 's sleep it had given him and was fulsome in his praise of what he called his ‘ beautiful lady ’ . |
| 12 | If hunting had once been in the red bitch 's blood it had long since been bred out and forgotten . |
| 13 | And remember that most of the candidates in most of the constituencies believe throughout , in their secret hearts , that they can not win — while most of the remainder are looking only to resume the dismal MP 's job they had before , once this is over and out of the way . |
| 14 | That was best night 's sleep I had last night for ages . |
| 15 | It was n't like that at my hubby 's last Kirk , telling you the Young Mothers ' Meeting we had there was Really Radical . |
| 16 | To face herself in a mirror without flinching : neat mid-brown hair that grew in orderly waves , a little longer than her father would have liked , almost to her shoulders , but not the shaggy bird 's nest it had been on Mars . |
| 17 | ‘ The generous responses by so many people was amazing and by New Year 's Eve we had raised £4,181 , ’ said Joan . |
| 18 | On New Year 's Eve he had been ill . |
| 19 | When they had gone to bed together on New Year 's Eve it had been like a revelation to him . |
| 20 | Anyway he owned the place and in most people 's eyes he had every right to chuck me out . |
| 21 | He said Mr Lamont declared in last year 's Budget he had ‘ no need , no proposals and no plans either to raise or to extend the scope of VAT ’ . |